Photo: Rankin Inlet residents clean up their shoreline

Beachy clean: students and staff from Simon Alaittuq School in Rankin Inlet take part in the annual Canadian Shoreline Cleanup campaign Sept. 22. The beach cleanup program occurs across the country every third week of September in every province and territory—from large urban centres to small remote communities. According to the campaign’s website, 58,500 Canadians collected nearly 100,000 kgs of trash in 2013. That year, the largest portion of Nunavut trash collected was “single-use food and beverage items.” (PHOTO BY DOUG MCLARTY/ARCTECH DESIGN & SERVICES)